SDK to encode media with FairPlay DRM?

Question

My company runs a video website. We currently make our content available via streaming, and download to Windows PCs with WMRM DRM. We're looking to make content available to download for Macs but would need to protect them with the FairPlay DRM system.

Is this something that we can do, or is FairPlay proprietary and only permitted to be encoded by Apple? Is there a Windows-based SDK/toolkit available to enable us to expand our encoder software to be able to create FairPlay protected files? I'd prefer an SDK so we can develop an in-process solution rather than having to call an executable.

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(PS: I know DRM is not popular, but it's not our call, it's the studios. So we have the choice of either making downloads available with DRM or not making downloads available at all. Please don't reply with answers like "DRM is bad" or "DRM is not the answer" because that's not my call, or even my company's call.)

Answer 1

You can use the FairPlay streaming SDK found here: https://developer.apple.com/streaming/fps/

It should help you setup a FairPlay server environment.

Answer 2

Silverlight + PlayReady is a cross-platform DRM solution. It allows for your scenario of supporting streaming + download on both Windows and MacOS.